Sunday, March 16, 2014

My Birthday Week

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I’ve had the greatest week full of love, family, friends, food, and memories!  I know that looking back on this post will make me feel super-thankful and blessed, no matter where I am in life.
Tuesday was my actual birthday, but the celebration started on Sunday night when we met up with our favorite friends for our annual “birthday dinner” tradition.  It’s a “Todd + Christine” combined birthday dinner with friends.  (See 2013, 2011, 2010) This year we met at China Max for some family-style feast.
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Dejah & Roby
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AJ & Meera
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Sally
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Todd & me
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We were sad that Anne & Gilbert were not able to attend this year!  It was such an awesome evening of catching up with our friends, enjoying great food, and sharing stories.  I will never forget the fun we had.
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On the actual morning of my birthday, Todd made me a fluffy mushroom omelet. He found the recipe from America’s Test Kitchen. 
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Todd hates eggs, cheese, and mushrooms.  So it was a big sacrifice to make this birthday breakfast for me, ha ha!  It was so delicious though!
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Then in the evening we went out for my birthday dinner at Ortegas in Hillcrest.  It happened to be Margarita Tuesday, so I had a birthday margarita.  It doesn’t look like I enjoyed it at all, does it??
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My favorite person in the whole wide world.
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I got crab enchiladas and they were fantastic!  So yummy!
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Todd got chicken mole.
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I didn’t have actual cake on my birthday, but Todd & I shared a brownie sundae and it was beyond good.
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As per my annual birthday tradition, I took a selfie.
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I got three varieties of chocolate teas from Dejah & Roby.  I got Amazon gift cards from Sally and my sister Joyce.  Todd got me the Roomba as an early birthday gift in February (I talked about how much I love it here).  My dad sent me a birthday check. Todd’s mom Sylvia sent me a calligraphy book. I also gave myself a birthday gift of all the new dye inks from Studio Calico
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The colors are SO pretty!  I made some swatch cards using the inks.
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My March Ipsy Glam Bag happened to come this week too.  I love everything I got in it this month: Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer, Chella Indigo Blue Eyeliner, NYX Love In Rio Eyeshadows, and Bareminerals Marvelous Moxie Lipstick in Get Ready.  And the cute bag!
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Meera gave me the gift of lunch and time together.  We met up for lunch on Thursday at Pho Hoang Express.
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My appreciation of her friendship could not be overstated.
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My friend Patsy’s birthday happens to be a week from mine, so we celebrated together with lunch on Friday at Akai Hana.
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Yummy salmon teriyaki!
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Noodle gave me the gift of being the cutest cat in the world.
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He loves snuggling and watching TV with Todd.
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And finding a sunny spot by the sliding glass door isn’t too bad.
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Birthday week ended with a surprise ice cream sandwich Friday night.  Todd found out about a homemade ice cream sandwich place in Pacific Beach called The Baked Bear and decided that I needed to try it out.  Mint chocolate chip ice cream sandwiched between chocolate chip cookies.
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I shared it with him, of course.  But let’s just say that counting calories was not the priority during Birthday Week, ha ha!  :D
Stay tuned to my blog because on Tuesday I’ll have a giveaway related to Project Life. You don’t want to miss out!

8 comments:

  1. Happy birthday again! You do such an awesome job of documenting. This blog must be such a treasure trove when you work on your scrapbooks :)

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  2. Happy birthday! Looks like you had a fabulous day!

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  3. Happy Birthday! Love, love, love you foodie adventures. You are definitely bless to have such great friends!

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  4. Looks like an awesome birthday week. Those ice cream sandwiches look amazing!! Happy belated birthday!

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  5. Awesome birthday week! Now I need an ice cream sandwich...

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  6. Happy Birthday. It looks like you will have a lot of pictures to scrap this month

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  7. Happy birthday! It looks like a week of great friends and food

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  8. Happy belated Birthday! Love the striped top. Looks like you had a wonderful week. I always love your food photos. I am such a foodie!

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